Cadence ”Spot Tax Payer” Andrysiak

They Are Not Beating The Socially Acceptable Ageplay Allegations

3 US soldiers killed, 5 wounded in Iran retaliation after deadly attacks Iran declares 40 days of mourning and launches attacks after supreme leader's killing; Israel strikes Tehran.

A hospital in Tehran aje.news/p4rw7y?updat...

Paul Conroy’s Last Photo Essay: Cuba’s Moment of Reckoning Veteran war photographer and correspondent Paul Conroy died of natural causes a day after returning from Cuba with this report of another city under siege. He never stopped bearing witness

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/paul-conro...

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

A Neutral Nation at War Iranian Memories of World War I

Foreign military interventions have never succeeded in improving the fate of the Iranian people. Historically, the consequences have amounted to little more than death, a weakened central gov., destruction, civil war, disease, & famine. guardeddomains.substack.com/p/a-neutral-... #Iran 1/3

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

This piece by @alihashem.bsky.social is exactly what I was trying to say in my post below 👇

Iran is not a 1 man authoritarian state. It is highly institutionalized with checks & veto points. Eliminating Khamenei might create a bit of trouble, but it will unlikely threaten the survival of the state

why do furries relitigate the same handful of moral panics? this is an interesting question to ponder, and many possibilities present themselves. furries are young and opinionated; furries believe themselves culturally and sexually challenging in a way that invites theorycrafting and moralizing; furry subculture is in many ways a ‘train station’ where people endlessly come and go, so there is never a baseline and never a settled consensus. all quite reasonable, all likely contributors. you may feel though, as i do, that these explanations dance around the core of what is happening here—they justify the recurrence, explain the severity, but do not get at what the purpose is exactly of these feverish bursts of discourse. in this vein i have a simple theory: these are essentially ideological confrontations and should be understood as such. what validates this simple theory of mine is the pathology of the furry moral panic and how little it diverges from what we see in the real world. just as can be observed of a real world moral panic, we see in the furry moral panic a predictable tendency to “[play] on themes which possess deeper, unconscious resonances” that any decent person ought find monstrous—so against the babyfur one is rattled with the specter of normalized pedophilia and child abuse, and against the feral artist one is assaulted with the prospect of covert zoophilic tendencies or rape of animals. and there is always some moral panic, always some subject who must be driven out of the subculture in the name of ‘standards’ which must be ‘put beyond debate.’ but never is the question evoked by this answered—what standard of decency is being applied, and on whose behalf?—because answering it would reveal ideology, make clear that the furry moral panic acts in reality as a site of struggle between those who demand assimilation and those who do not. the moral panic itself, then...

...can be understood as a reflection of anxiety about diversity—especially of an avant garde variety—and the inherent difficulty in liquidating this diversity to the desired ‘decency’ and ‘normality.’ furries also seem rather predictable moralizers in this respect; it is typical of those who seek fealty to polite society to frame their desires “in the name of the ‘good’ of a population which is never actually consulted.” to be clear, i should not be interpreted as suggesting it surprising that furry subculture fails to subvert the totality of one's socialization, or the cultural hegemony of one's media consumption. nevertheless, it makes for a rather schizoid scene (if i may be permitted to use the term) for some to find gratification in ordinary furry porn—much less in transformation, inflation, vore and such—but then turn back on it the moral framework and prescriptions of a society that would struggle to distinguish any of it from actual zoophilic desire. if in the framework of polite society we are all dogfuckers, yet we all know this is false, even from a perspective of bad faith it seems rather worth questioning the value of this framework in making social condemnations of other furries. certainly you will not manage to become some hypothetical ‘good dogfucker’ by passing such judgements, by attempting to use the logic of the moral panic to browbeat the subculture into your desired form. the audience to whose tune you are ultimately trying to dance already knows what to think of you. they have already devised the moral framework needed to permanently otherize you, and all you have done is internalize their logic to otherize your own acceptable targets. ultimately, to appeal to ‘decency’ can play only to the advantage of one side, and that side is Watney's “imaginary national family unit which is both white and heterosexual” for whom only the total renunciation of queer identity is acceptable. it is, in a sense, an appeal to collaboration.

a theory on the recurrent furry moral panic (or, ‘the haunt of the ideological confrontation’)

alyaza.neocities.org/essays/Furry...

Would not be surprised if the Trump admin's line is "Take back your country and also your leader's name is Reza Pahlavi"

If this is true, it’s very clear that we want to destroy the possibility of a genuinely democratic opposition taking power, because we want to install that dog Reza Pahlavi as Shah

killing for content

What's the point of even having an intelligence agency if you're going to ignore everything it says

US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN; TEHRAN FIRES BACK, EXPLOSIONS ACROSS REGION Explosions heard in Tehran, elsewhere, as Israel and US launches attacks; Iran retaliates, blasts across region.

A gymnasium in Lamerd, Fars province aje.news/p4rw7y?updat...

In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

Jean Baudrillard LA GUERRE DU GOLFE N'A PAS EU LIEU

This was published today lol

Do not forget the people of Lebanon either, who have been suffering the "preemptive" bombardment of Israel for well over a year and a half and are suffering it intensified tenfold today

Most likely scenario imo: We see a redo of the US air campaign against the Houthis for the next several weeks. Lots of senior folks killed. Lots of infrastructure destroyed. Lots of civilians murdered. But likely not a major shift in who's ruling in Tehran before the US seeks a deal.

The cover of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War by Robert Pape

A piece that will always Predict The Future.

"The second Trump administration is almost entirely staffed by content creators who want to make content, and they are expending your taxpayer dollars as well as the international reputation of the United States of America to do it." www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...

Bombing Iran in the middle of the day makes perfect sense if you want 'shock and awe' and Content, Content, Content

the reason we’re bombing iran is because thats the penis thing to do and not bombing is vagina

after a bit of discomfort due to the USA threatening to invade them, Europe and Canada are back to fully supporting the USA in any war, standing behind them like barking seals

In answer to some queries: this is not a joke, Melania Trump actually is presiding over a UN Security Council meeting Monday, and apparently they scheduled that knowing they were going to launch an illegal war on Saturday morning

Update from Iranian state media
aje.news/p4rw7y?updat...

prison for everyone involved in this illegal war of aggression

A girls elementary school.

No War For Content